Jose Corrales won his biggest race as a trainer last week when Bodhisattva pulled away in the stretch of the $100,000 Federico Tesio Stakes at Pimlico.

The Tesio is the final stakes for 3-year-olds in Maryland prior to the Preakness, but Corrales, who also owns Bodhisattva, is a realist, and he will only run there if he thinks the horse belongs.

“I don’t want to be a dreamer,” Corrales said Wednesday. “I want to run my horses where I think I can be in the first three. To run just to run means nothing to me. I want to run and make money.”

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Sr. Quisqueyano can kick-start a memorable week of racing for owner Ron Paolucci in Friday night’s Grade 3, $200,000 Texas Mile at Lone Star Park. A Dallas resident, Paolucci will be at Churchill Downs next weekend to watch his War Story run in the Kentucky Derby.

One King’s Man could get an ideal setup Friday night in the Grade 3, $200,000 Texas Mile at Lone Star Park near Dallas. The potential for a quick pace in the co-richest race of the meet is one of the reasons the late-running stakes winner was entered, trainer Joe Sharp said Tuesday.

“We looked at how the race might set up,” Sharp said of the nominations to the Texas Mile. “It looked like there would be plenty of speed, which should set up a good scenario for him. He needs the right scenario to develop in front of him, and it looks like in this race that should be the case.”

Charles Town set a record for total handle on its Charles Town Classic program last Saturday.

A total of $4,827,105 was wagered on the 13-race card, surpassing the $4,398,985 bet on Classic Day in 2013. More than half of the total was bet on the Charles Town Classic itself, which set a single-race track record for handle of $2,423,782.

Trainer Jamie Ness will have an increased presence at the upcoming Delaware Park meet.

Ness, the leading trainer at Delaware Park in 2012 and 2013, finished third in the standings last season behind Juan Vazquez and Scott Lake. Ness had between 25 and 30 horses at Delaware last year but is expected to have closer to 50 when the meet opens May 16.

Ness, 38, is currently based at Tampa Bay Downs, where through Tuesday he led the trainers’ standings with 41 wins, three more than second-place Gerald Bennett.

It appears that getting onto the Hall of Fame ballot was tougher for King Leatherbury than actually being voted into the Hall.

On Monday, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame named Leatherbury one of this year’s four inductees. This was the first time the 82-year-old Leatherbury had been nominated.

Leatherbury will be the third-oldest living trainer inducted into the Hall of Fame, following Carl Hanford (89) and Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons (84), according to the National Museum of Racing.

John Velazquez will ride Carpe Diem and Javier Castellano will ride Materiality in the Kentucky Derby, trainer Todd Pletcher announced late Monday afternoon.

Velazquez has been riding both Carpe Diem and Materiality, both trained by Pletcher. They are considered among the top candidates for the May 2 Derby. Carpe Diem has won 4 of 5 starts, most recently the Blue Grass Stakes. Materiality is unbeaten in three starts, and comes off a victory in the Florida Derby.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – What figured to be a far-from-noteworthy Kentucky Derby-Oaks training session Monday got an unexpected boost when reigning female sprint champion Judy the Beauty worked six furlongs after the renovation break at 8:30 a.m. Judy the Beauty is scheduled to make her 2015 debut in the Grade 1 Humana Distaff here a week from Saturday.

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Weather: Overcast
Temperature: 58
Track: Muddy, upgraded to good after the break

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Joe Sharp plans to have 20 horses stabled at Belmont Park this spring and summer, and if they can perform the way Aztec Brave did in Sunday’s $100,000 Danger’s Hour Stakes at Aqueduct, he will have a successful meet.

Aztec Brave scored a front-running 1 1/4-length victory in the Danger’s Hour. He is the first horse Sharp has started on this circuit since he went out on his own last fall. Sharp has worked in New York before, serving three years as an assistant to Mike Maker.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – The trainers’ race at the 2014-15 Tampa Bay Downs meeting might go down to the final days, but there’s no question who will be the leading rider.

For the second straight year, Antonio Gallardo will top the jockeys’ standings, and the only question is whether he will win in record-setting fashion. Through Sunday, Gallardo had won 131 races, 13 shy of Daniel Centeno’s record of 144 victories set at the 2007-08 meeting. The meet ends June 30.